Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 21

Elliot: Mr.Maxwell, I already have a key to the city and you would be amazed at how few doors it unlocks.

Elliot: I hate to sleep. It is such a presious waste of time.
Catherine: We all need to sleep. We need to dream.
Elliot: I know about dreams.

Elliot: (showing the picture of the tower) This is the stuff that dreams are made of.
Catherine: You have built skyscrapers before.
Elliot: They were just buildings. This, I have waited my whole life to build this tower. Look at it. Is is 152 stories of offices and apartments and shops. Theatres. Botanical gardens. 9 restaurants. A six story waterfall in the Atrium. A city within a city.

Catherine: Restaurants and a waterfall will not make it any less... less...
Elliot: Large?
Catherine: It is going to impact the lives of thousands of people. It will change the whole neighborhood, the city.
Elliot: Change is not always bad, Cathy. (showing the slides) I remember the first time I saw the skyline of New York. Empire State. Chrysler Building. I looked at them and I knew this was where I belonged. This was a town where anything was possible. The town is what I am and now, I am going to give something back.

Vincent: (with Catherine in the painted tunnels) Your world and mine. She tells our stories on these walls. Reminds us that we are all part of one great city.
Catherine: She must be an extrordinary woman to take bare, gray walls and fill them with so much color and beauty.
Vincent: Elizabeth is a mystery even to us. No one knows when she left the world Above or why. She refuses to speak of such things.

Vincent: (after explosion rocks tunnel) Most excavations stop well above our levels, but this new tower sinks its roots deep into the earth, deeper than any building has ever gone before.
Catherine: The Birch Tower?
Vincent: ...if it is not stopped. Father thinks it will be the end of our world.

Elizabeth: Vincent! Come closer, child! Come see what I have been doing. (Shows painting of Vincent and Erik)
Vincent: It is as if you saw it with your own eyes.
Elizabeth: I did in a way. You are not my only visitor, you know. Mouse brings me my paints. Sometimes Mary comes or Sarah. They tell me stories and I put the stories on the wall. So, it is not magic after all. I leave that kind of thing to Narcissa.
Vincent: You have your own magic.

Elizabeth: ...I am not finished! You have to finish what you start.
Elizabeth: This is my life, Vincent. Here on these walls. You didn't think that I was going to live forever, did you child?

Father: The excavation will reveal at least four levels, possibly five or six. And even if we start sealing up all the surrounding tunnels today, there is no way to minimize the exposure. Evacuation is the only answer.

Vincent: Elizabeth says they are her life. Who are we to tell her she is wrong?

Vincent: (about Mouse's plan) Your heart does you credit.

Catherine (to Luz) Sometimes our commitment can blind us.

Father: It is all being taken away from us, Vincent. The work of a lifetime. Everything we built, lost.
Vincent: What is lost can be found again, built again. As long as we have each other our world will survive.
Father: I wish I could believe that.

Mouse: Look, just another stupid tower. They've got plenty Uptop. Don't need this one.

Elizabeth (about Mouse) He is a rather odd boy. Have you noticed?

Elliot: Trust is a two way street.
Catherine: You can not barter for trust Elliot and I can not tell you what you want to know. I made a promise.
Elliot: (about Mouse) Why should I let him go?
Catherine: Because I am asking you to.

Vincent: Catherine will not fail us.

Father: Mouse is such a wild spirit.
Vincent: Whatever happens, Mouse will survive. He survived for years by himself. A shadow. Moving about. Stealing bits of food. Watching us.
Father: Until you caught him. I remember how he kicked and screamed.

Father: Mouse, I hope this experience has taught you a lesson.
Mouse: Yes
Father: Good
Mouse: Shouldn't get caught.

Vincent: Your heart is full of turmoil.
Catherine: It's Elliot. It was so easy when I thought I was falling in love and even easier when I was certain that he was evil.
Vincent: Now, you see him as he truly is good and bad, strong and weak. Capable of great deeds and great wrongs. A human being.
Catherine: Yes and with human feelings, I feel like I am trading in his feelings.

Elliot: I never felt like this before. After I released your friend, my security foreman called me up and very politely asked me if I have lost my mind.
Catherine: You did the right thing.
Elliot: Yeah, I seem to be making a habit of that with you...Cathy, I am in love with you! I have had other relationships, but from the very first moment I set eyes on you, I knew you were different. Then when you walked out of my life-that was really different-and I wanted you twice as much.
Catherine: Because you could not have me. That is obcession, Elliot, that is not love.

Elliot: At first, yes... But when you came to me and you needed my help, right then I knew I could make you mine. I know desperation when I see it...When someone has something I want I take it. I go for the win that is what I do, what I am...No, it is what I have become but not that day. Why?
Catherine: Because you are a decent man who could not turn his back on a friend.
Elliot: I don't have any friends, Cathy. Somewhere on the way up friends became inconvenient.

Catherine: Love can be inconvenient, too.
Elliot: You don't have to tell me that.Do you think I want to be this out of control? I feel like a 14 year old boy, confused and awkward and scared. I'm never scared, Cathy. I don't aloow myself to be scared. And despite everything, I'd rather be right here with you more than anywhere else on earth. There is nothing I can do about the past, but there is plenty we can do about the future together. Cathy, I'm asking you to marry me.
Catherine: Elliot.
Elliot: Don't say anything. Not now. All I ask is for you to think about it, seriously, after you have had a little sleep.
Catherine: Sleep is not going to change anything...
Elliot: It might. Give me that much at least. I did not ask for this, Cathy, but it is real and I do love you. And I would do anything in this world to make you happy, if you give me the chance.

Vincent: Catherine, no!
Catherine: I have to. It's the only way. With Luz discredited, nothing stands in the way of the tower. Elliot leaked the story. I'm sure of it. Luz stood in his way, so he removed her, and used me to do it.

Vincent: How can you even consider a union with such a man?
Catherine: He's a human being, strong and weak, good and bad. You said so yourself, Vincent. And he loves me, as much as a man like Elliot can love.
Vincent: But you do not love this man!
Catherine: No. But there is more at stake than just me here. The painted tunnels, Elizabeth, Father and Mouse, all the children who have found safety Below. And you, you most of all..Vincent, you have risked your life for me a hundred times. How can I stand by and watch your world be destroyed when I have the power to save it?
Vincent: I cannot allow you to sacrifice yourself in such a way.
Catherine: I'm sorry, Vincent, but it's not yor decision. I'm going to marry him. I have to.

Catherine: Yes, Elliot, I will marry you.
Elliot: Oh, that is wonderful! Oh, you won't be sorry.

Catherine: I want you to halt construction on the tower.
Elliot: Stop the ... Is this a joke?
Catherine: No joke. You said you loved, do anything for me.
Elliot: O, Cathy. No, no, no. You don't understand. The tower is the most important thing in my life besides you the two of us on top watching down below taking in the sights.

Catherine: No! It can't be!
Elliot: Yes!
Catherine: It's just a building, Elliot. People are more important than buildings, more important than dreams even...If pick up that phone and stop that tower right now, I will know you believe that too and I will marry you, trust you.

Elliot: (anguished) I can't!
Catherine: I understand.

Vincent: I thought I would never see your face again. When you walked away from me, there was such resolve in your heart.
Catherine: That was the hardest thing I have done in my life.
Vincent: And the noblest.

Catherine: Every step was like a knife inside me. All of my love for you was calling me back.
Vincent: But a greater love drove you onward. Your strength saved us all. Yet, I share your melancholy.
Catherine: I was just thinking of Elliot. Vincent, you helped me find the best part of who I am but, Elliot, he has lost more than his tower, he has lost himself.